Riverbed CX-770 $30BO

[matthewmdn]

Only a small pihole VM running on this node right now. It's still sitting on my desk while messing with it. Almost completely silent.

root@pmx-04:~# sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

root@pmx-04:~# hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Patriot Spark: 33°C
root@pmx-04:~# hddtemp /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: INTEL SSDSC2BB080G4: 40°C

 

[matthewmdn]

BTW how can you tell which CX-xxx model you have? I've got the NAMB-3250MB motherboard and 6x1gb ports, but I can't find a model number that correlates to a CX-xxx number.

 

[NachoCDN]

Only a small pihole VM running on this node right now. It's still sitting on my desk while messing with it. Almost completely silent.

root@pmx-04:~# sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

thank you for posting these, i'm gonna have to invest in some of those fans!

 

[foureight84]

Only a small pihole VM running on this node right now. It's still sitting on my desk while messing with it. Almost completely silent.

root@pmx-04:~# sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +55.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

root@pmx-04:~# hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Patriot Spark: 33°C
root@pmx-04:~# hddtemp /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: INTEL SSDSC2BB080G4: 40°C
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You could reverse the fans as intake from the back instead of exhaust and it would probably give you better temps. I reversed the flow on the OEM fans and the system idles in the 30s. Although I am also using an air guide on the cpu heatsink as well.

 

[foureight84]

BTW how can you tell which CX-xxx model you have? I've got the NAMB-3250MB motherboard and 6x1gb ports, but I can't find a model number that correlates to a CX-xxx number.

it looks like you might have a CX-570 from looking at your sensor output (2 cores vs 4 cores of the Xeon E3-1125C v2 on the CX-770). The CX-570 has an Intel Pentium B925C (https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium_Dual-Core/Intel-Pentium Mobile B925C.html). There's usually a sticker on the side that states the model number but could have been removed. They all seem to use the same motherboard as well.

You can at least verify the CPU to help narrow down the model with lspci.

 

[foureight84]

Looks like the latest Proxmox VE 8.0 has a text-based installer again: Proxmox VE 8.0 released!

EDIT: NVM Proxmox VE 8.0 released! ugh... it's just text-based without serial console support. That's coming in a later release. In the mean time, Install Proxmox VE on Debian 12 Bookworm - Proxmox VE is still the way to go for serial console only installs.

 

[hmartin]

Is it possible to run these with more than 4x8GB RAM sticks. I have some 32GB sticks (HMT84GR7MMR4A-H9 - SK Hynix 1x 32GB DDR3-1333 RDIMM PC3L-10600R Quad Rank x4 Module) for instance that are not showing up in BIOS. I get this is probably a stupid question, but it's been a while since I've been working with hardware, and I'm struggling to figure out what max compatible RAM is on this motherboard. I'm happy to update BIOS and try some stuff if anyone has leads....

These are great little pieces of hardware, and I'm using as Proxmox cluster node.

Celeron/Pentium/Xeon E3 platforms do not support Reg ECC memory. You can only install unbuffered RAM, which maxes out at 8GB/DIMM for this platform.

Looks like the latest Proxmox VE 8.0 has a text-based installer again: Proxmox VE 8.0 released!

EDIT: NVM Proxmox VE 8.0 released! ugh... it's just text-based without serial console support. That's coming in a later release. In the mean time, Install Proxmox VE on Debian 12 Bookworm - Proxmox VE is still the way to go for serial console only installs.

I'll jump in here to say that I have a GitHub repo that allows you to install Alpine using a serial console. There's also a branch with debootstrap for installing Debian-based distributions to your device.

I generally find it nicer to embed my SSH key in the generated installer and just SSH (it's set to DHCP on boot) and debootstrap the OS, than answer a billion questions from the Debian/Ubuntu text installer.